How to get Fingered on a Rock in Favignana to Taormina in just under 24 hours

I finally share my secret. Plus everywhere I ate, drank and stayed worth mentioning grieving on the isola of the short king.

It’s literally a ferry, guys. Well, a bike from the rock to the port then feet to run for your life with, but then a ferry from Favignana to Marsala and then a Flixbus. You can’t make this shit up. Check Rome to Rio for routes 😂 though not entirely reliable. Use as a “guide.”

And as a disclaimer, I’m not pretending to know anything. We all know that white girls with their vanilla guides to various destinations across Europe are a dime a dozen, and I don’t know if that creates a reverse pick-me situation but I still don’t want to be one of them. I think it’s nice to try and go our own way and write our own stories when it comes to travelling.

I feel like so much of what we may regard as taste has rather nothing to really do with us. And is tied up in other peoples’ stuff or something we saw on TikTok. Even though I love that app, it stitched me up again last week in Paris with a €25 sandwich that wasn’t even good. That i would have never have got if i didn’t lose myself temporarily to some teenager’s “best of.” Whilst hyping a lot of average shit and keeping a lot of magic overlooked, I still love a sure thing as much as anyone but nothing really beats discovering something great all by yourself, in my opinion.

So thanks to a healthy balance of just a little bit of research and following my nose, Airbnb hosts telling me where to go and ofcourse, Ben Tish, here are my reco’s for:

Palermo

Stay

Allesandra’s Place

Gorgeous, spacious apartment in historic centre.

MojoCoHouse

Giuseppe, the owner was not just a wonderful guide but became a friend and shared his friends with me too, during my three week stay in Palermo ( FYI Alessandra’s Place is also in his building).